Hi Stefan,
I want to do something very basic. I want to place a bet with the bot "place bet".
I do not know why the bot does not place the bet when I select "My bot" then "Start". I just receive this message " the bot ....has been started" and no bet are placed.
I found a way to reach my target: "Event browser" , "open", "open in Bot executor" "start execution time" and then I modify my time.
But as you see the second method is very long especially when you want to place bets on a very long number of events.
Thanks
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Betfair Bot
So you are using Bot Executor this way, select one market in Bet Event Browser and click on Open In Bot executor, and this procedure you repeat for x markets.
You can select 100 markets and click Open In Bot Executor, then your bot is executed on all those selected markets.
Bot Executor opens and monitors markets in its own, so all you have got from bot activity are just messages in the Output view, and market report status in Bot Executor: Profit Balance.
If a bot is executed on the market by Bot Executor, and you double click selected market then this market is reopen in bfexplorer with all running bots, so you can see bot activity on Bet Event / Bet Event Trader view.
I made some videos and already wrote about Bot Executor and Bot Executor for Selections, on this forum.
The other alternative for executing the same action bot on open markets is offered by Open Markets view, just click Start Bot, and make your choice.
Hamid
Hi Stefan,
You wrote "So you are using Bot Executor this way, select one market in Bet Event Browser and click on Open In Bot executor, and this procedure you repeat for x markets."
How to manage if you have, for instance, one event starting in 20 minutes, another in 3 hours and a last one tomorow? And you want to swich off your computer in 3 minutes?
Any solution to ignore "Start execution time"? Like that the bot will be executed immediatly and so on the bet be placed.
Thanks
Hamid
Again me!
I made a test with the Bot "be first in queue" and there is not problem about placing bet immediatly. Can't "Place Bet" do the same, becauase it did it on the previous version of BfExplorer?
Mir.
Try untick this parameter...
Hamid
Hi Mir,
Thank you for post but it does not help me because I want to place a fix odds not a range odds.
Mir.
OK.
I solved a similar problem with the bot and eventually helped me uncheck this parameter.
Probably a coincidence in my case...
Betfair Bot
Hamid, I still do not understand why you want to use a bot to place a bet for you. You said:
“..how to place a bet immediately? I want to do something very basic. I want to place a bet with the bot "place bet".”
“How to manage if you have, for instance, one event starting in 20 minutes, another in 3 hours and a last one tomorow? And you want to swich off your computer in 3 minutes?”
Forgive me, but if you want to place a bet immediately then why you want to do it by bot, mainly when you say you will switch off your computer, and so your bots, in 3 minutes.
If you want to place bets immediately then do so by clicking on market grid or on a ladder. Bfexplorer is really good in finding and loading betfair markets on which you want to bet, just watch videos about Event Browser.
Betfair bots are basically used when you want to place a bet in manageable way, for instance drip feeding big bet on betfair market selection, getting a bet at better odds – be the first in queue bot (I think this type of bot is offered only by bfexplorer), managing bet position – Place bet and close position bot, in some cases you want to place a bet only when odds drops to curtain level, and so on.
In all above mentioned case you will have to leave bfexplorer running with your bots and open internet connection, as in such cases are bets managed by bfexplorer bots for you automatically.
You said, I will switch off my computer in 3 minutes, then all that make no sense.
Miro is right.
If you want to place a bet at fixed odds then you must switch off PlaceBetInAllowedOddsRange and set your fixed odds by Odds parameter.
Hamid
Stefan,
"Hamid, I still do not understand why you want to use a bot to place a bet for you."
Simply because I did use to do it with the old version of BfExplorer and it was not a problem. Maybe it was a bad habit but I still don't understand why a bot named "Place Bet " can not place a bet! Sorry to be a little rude. The possibility to place a bet 10 minutes or 2 days before the event start should stay a possibility and not an obligation. At least you should propose the option "place bet now".
"If you want to place bets immediately then do so by clicking on market grid or on a ladder. Bfexplorer is really good in finding and loading betfair markets on which you want to bet, just watch videos about Event Browser."
When I try to place bets in this way I always face the problem of "start execution time" I don't want to modify this parameter because sometime I have more that 30 bets to place.
Betfair Bot
I think you should make some video showing your problem, because I think something is lost in translation then I can see what you set for bot parameters and how you use the Place Bet bot.
For now what you are saying make no sense for me.
Place Bet bot works and all who use could confirm that.
Mir.
Hi Hamid,
1) check if you are Professional user (or Free Tial) - http://bfexplorer.net/Subscribe
Free Trial and Professional subsciption allows using bots and others variations of automated trading.
2) Create a new Place Bet bot without any your parameter (default) only your Odds (4,80 is example) and PlaceBetInAllowedPrice to False.
3) Open Market/Selection and execute this bot by Start button.
What's happened?